React Table Tutorial: Building Customizable Data Grids with `react-table`

Learn how to build highly customizable and performant data tables in your React applications using the `react-table` library. This tutorial demonstrates `react-table`'s features, including pagination, sorting, and filtering, providing a practical guide to displaying and managing tabular data.

Using react-table in React

This guide demonstrates how to use the `react-table` library to display data in a customizable table within your React application.

Introduction to react-table

react-table is a lightweight, performant, and highly customizable data grid component for React. It offers features like pagination, filtering, and sorting, all while remaining highly flexible.

Features

• Lightweight (~11kb)
• Fully customizable (JSX, templates, styling, callbacks)
• Client-side and server-side pagination
• Filtering capabilities
• Pivoting and aggregation
• Easily themeable

Installation

1. Create a new React app: npx create-react-app my-react-app
2. Install react-table: npm install react-table

Implementing react-table

Let's create a simple table to display some sample data.

Sample Data and Columns

const data = [
  { name: 'Alice', age: 30 },
  { name: 'Bob', age: 25 },
  { name: 'Charlie', age: 35 },
  { name: 'Dave', age: 28 }
];

const columns = [
  { Header: 'Name', accessor: 'name' },
  { Header: 'Age', accessor: 'age' }
];
        

App.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactTable from "react-table";
import "react-table/react-table.css";

function App() {
  const data = [ /* ...data from above */ ];
  const columns = [ /* ...columns from above */ ];

  return (
    <ReactTable data={data} columns={columns} />
  );
}

export default App;
        

(Another image here showing the table with a different number of rows selected via a dropdown, demonstrating pagination).